Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)

Like my colleagues, Deputy Shane McEntee and Deputy Olivia Mitchell, our spokesperson on transport, I very much welcome this much needed and sought after Roads Bill. For the past while, Deputy Olivia Mitchell has called for the tolls to be changed. I compliment her on that as have the Labour Party and many other Opposition parties over the past number of years.

Part of the Bill refers to car parking around sports stadia. I hope the city dwellers did not look for this part of the Bill to deal with culchies coming up to Dublin and parking in front of their driveways, on footpaths and elsewhere. I am very proud to be a culchie and when I come up to Croke Park, I park wherever I can find a suitable place but I have often been penalised for doing so.

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